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“[T]his picture of wrath and hell means nothing more or less than the terrible truth that the sufferings of those who persist in rejecting God’s love in Christ are self-imposed and self-perpetuated. The inevitable consequence is that if they eternally persist in such rejection, God will never violate their personality. Whether any soul will in fact eternally resist God, we cannot say.”
― Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Followingthe Lamb into the New Creation
― Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Followingthe Lamb into the New Creation
“Yes, the slaughtered Lamb fights for God and will act on behalf of God to rid the world of evil, but he does so with only his own blood and a sword in his mouth (19:15), not with a sword in his hand to literally shed the blood of his enemies. The integrity and witness of the church depend, in part, on realizing this truth. The war of the Lamb is not what humans have been fighting all these centuries. The”
― Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Followingthe Lamb into the New Creation
― Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Followingthe Lamb into the New Creation
“Revelation calls all Christians to refuse participation in acts that express allegiance and devotion to the gods of power and might, whether military, political, social, or economic.”
― Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Followingthe Lamb into the New Creation
― Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Followingthe Lamb into the New Creation
“This is the modus operandi of the Lamb: he comes on the white horse of victory bearing his own blood, reminding us that he will defeat the powers of evil as the Lamb, not with a sword in his hand but with a sword in his mouth.”
― Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Followingthe Lamb into the New Creation
― Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Followingthe Lamb into the New Creation
“Almighty, eternal, just, and merciful God, give us miserable ones the grace to do for you alone what we know you want us to do and always to desire what pleases you. Inwardly cleansed, interiorly enlightened, and inflamed by the Holy Spirit, may we be able to follow in the footprints of your Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and, by your grace alone, may we make our way to you, O Most High, who lives and reigns in perfect Trinity and simple unity, and is glorified as God Almighty, forever and ever. Amen.”
― Francis of Assisi: A New Biography
― Francis of Assisi: A New Biography
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